EDC2010plan

EDC workshop 10 mins Introduce speakers both present and absent and remind of the goals; set the environmental tone by talking about "oops" and "ouch" as ways of addressing discomfort with any issues arising from how we describe nations etc.

Ask people what *they* hope to get accomplished in the 90 mins together

15 mins Enact conceptions of educational development work on a campus – if your campus were the globe (or a country), what nation (or province/state) would your teaching or learning centre “be?” -- Trevor to demonstrate on a doc-camera projected map (marker) or hung map (stickies)

Using a map of the world, map the work of your teaching centre or independent work you've done on a campus -- knowing whatever you know of global and local politics, "locate" yourself and institutional departments/units on the map (within a country or worldwide) as they currently exist (e.g. If our campus were Canada, our teaching centre would be Newfoundland; if our campus were the world, our teaching centre would be Switzerland, etc.)

If you are (x), what country (or province/state) are other departments or administrative units on your campus?

If you don't like your current image/metaphor -- is there a better nation or part of a nation you'd rather "be" on the world of you campus?

Discuss what you've come up with in pairs...

10 mins on a whiteboard or flip chart Identify alternate stories, what might be missing, etc.
 * Brainstorm** attributes of "Switzerland" as a neutral country

10 mins Quote from Bev's section of the working paper to deepen our thinking
 * Discussion**: Apply this deeper thinking to our teaching centres or independent ed development work -- on our maps, in pairs for 5 mins, then any further points in larger group for 5 mins

10 mins
 * discussion** of implications and what’s at stake in using geopolitical metaphors, cartographic metaphors, economic metaphors in this way

15 mins Given the deepened understanding of diversity, discuss what it would look like to be the "Canada" of our campuses, or, if people wish, talk about our campuses as a kind of Canada and who might be the different populations within it (provincially, ethnically, etc.)
 * Brainstorm** stereotypes of Canada and Canadians, then deepen with a trigger from Tereigh's section of the working paper, identifying attributes of Canadian identities, plural and multiple

20 mins depending on first part…
 * discuss** in small and large groups the implications of the brainstorm, the quotes from the working paper, the identity geographies of the work. Re-map… or… think about Canadian approaches to geo-politics of university/college? Discussion of neutrality versus positionality?